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Re: corrosive perspiration

To: "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>, <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: corrosive perspiration
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:25:24 -0500
>Don . . not to worry 'bout oily rags . . I asked a professional, a career
>trained fireman and fire marshall why we've always been told that oily rags
>created spontaneous combustion.  I knew it wasn't true 'cause for 30 years,
>the shop I ran collected our rental red rags in a wooden nail-keg
>ferGawd'ssake.  He quickly said that petro-oily was not the problem . . it
>was organic oils such as cooking related oils that can, under weird
>circomstances, heat as a product of oxidation.  Check it out with someone
>you trust but not to worry.


Linseed oil used by painters is a source of spontaneous combustion.  Sealed
metal containers is the answer.

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